Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Liquid cellphone cushion

Drop your cellphone and you are likely to be picking bits off the floor for a week. So Japanese electronics company Sony has come up with a clever new way to protect at least the sensitive innards.

Sony proposes that the phone's electronics could be housed within a water-tight casing, which is itself placed within a second container filled with liquid, but punctured with numerous holes.

Drop the phone and, on impact, the inner compartment would push against the liquid, squeezing it through the holes into an outer chamber. The process reduces the force of impact, helping to protect the electronics inside, and increasing the chances your phone's functions will survive the fall.

why? i've dropped my cellphone several times with no problem. on the other hand, one cellphone died due to getting wet. this proposal seems to me to be a sure-fire method of selling more cellphones as the liquid ruins the phones on impact.